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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviews Rob van der Haar on the Digital City Amsterdam, Florence Italy May 1996
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviews Mark Pesce on VRML, avatars in Florence, Italy in May 1996
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Apr 19, 2012
04/12
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Christopher Walker, South World Productions
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VWTimeline: SW City in Active Worlds by Christopher Walker (2006)
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Sherwood Forest Towne in AlphaWorld-1996
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium, DigitalSpace
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Avatars2001 Cyberconference in Active Worlds
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Avatars99 Cyberconference in Active Worlds
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer, Moira Gunn
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Bruce Damer and Moira Gunn on Avatars and Virtual Worlds: NPR-KQED: Tech Nation Jan 18, 1998
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Jim Woodring
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from The Palace, an early avatar virtual world-1996-1997. Featuring cartoon avatars and objects by artist Jim Woodring.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Jan 6, 2018
01/18
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Allan Lundell
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1996 10 26 Earth 2 Avatars Out Takes Brett Kelly Steph Scully Vocce Om Alex Utterman Rob Tow Kitty David Traub Peter Bruce Damer Pan
Topics: Avatars, virtual worlds
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Jan 5, 2018
01/18
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Allan Lundell
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1996 10 26 Avatar Behind The Scenes SF Balloon Elevator Liberty Lights Drumming Brett Leonard David Traub Stephanie Sutton Michael Moore Carla King Wendy Sue Noah Fantuzzi Sun Bruce On 360 Turntable
Topics: Avatars, virtual worlds
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from the Onlive Traveler virtual world-1996-97
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer on Virtual Worlds on KPFA radio, January 1998
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviews Mark Pesce in Florence, Italy in May 1996 as part of the Connected Intelligence workshop hosted by Derrick de Kherkhove of the McCluhan Programme of the University of Toronto
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer, Bonnie deVarco
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Bonnie deVarco interviewed by Bruce Damer on Virtual Worlds in learning Sept 1 2009
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer
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Very early recording of Bruce Damer on Avatars and Virtual Worlds-Xplor Canada May 15 1996
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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Bruce Damer, Henry Lowood
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on origins of Virtual Worlds, Stanford University Apr 8, 2009. This interview is in two parts and is for the Archiving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Lucasfilm
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Habitat, the earliest avatar multi user virtual world (1985).
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Jun 10, 2015
06/15
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium, DigitalSpace
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Avatars98 in Active Worlds
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Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Daphne, Benjamin Britton/CERHAS/University of Cincinnati
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from the Moon project, Active Worlds-1999. A virtual space museum and reconstruction of the space program vehicles including the Apollo XI moon landing in July 1969 created in the Active Worlds environment by a team from University of Cincinnati. Images show the "Virtual Walk on the Moon" online event with Apollo IX astronaut Russell Schweickart, held on July 21, 1999, thirty years to the minute after the actual landing on the moon. This collection also...
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium, DigitalSpace
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: A short documentary move and images from Avatars2000 Cyberconference in Active Worlds (AV2K) held in November 2000. Video camera capture and editing by Al & Sun Lundell, captured at the home of Bruce Damer & Galen Brandt in Boulder Creek California. Cyber-attendees everywhere experiencing the grand finale of the AV2K virtual conference hosted by the Contact Consortium. In it the toroidal space station "self destructs" dropping avatar attendees (real...
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium, DigitalSpace
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Avatars2002 Cyberconference in Active Worlds. A Merrie Cyber Party, held in January 2003. Theme: Middle Earth. This collection includes images of maps of avatar attendee movement around the key worlds in the Av2002 event produced by Katy Borner of the University of Indiana.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from Worlds Chat, an early Internet-based avatar virtual world (1995).
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars
Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Free Realms, people are making friends, building communities, creating art, and making real money. Business is booming on the virtual frontier, as billions of dollars are paid in exchange for pixels on screens. But sometimes things go wrong. Virtual criminals defraud online communities in pursuit of real-world profits. People feel cheated when their avatars lose...
Topics: Internet Law, Virtual worlds
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Jan 24, 2017
01/17
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Allan Lundell, Virtual World Studios
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Bruce Damer interviewed on the current state of "Avatars" in 1996 by Allan Lundell at a Santa Cruz Beach House Party on 29th of December 1996. Bruce describes the state of virtual worlds, including AlphaWorld, and Onlive Traveler and their prospects for 1997. This interview was just two months after Bruce hosted the first conference on avatars/virtual worlds on the internet, Earth to Avatars.
Topics: virtual worlds, california culture
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Oct 5, 2016
10/16
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Dr. Bruce Damer
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Virtual Worlds Timeline October 2016 walking tour, movies & images from Avatars98: Inside Cyberspace conference in Active Worlds.
Topics: avatars, virtual worlds, cyberconferences
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium, DigitalSpace
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Walk Through Sherwood Forest Towne-AlphaWorld-1996 video recorded in 2008 with Active Worlds developer Chris Peg. Historic first project in AlphaWorld, the construction of Sherwood Forest Towne by members of the Contact Consortium starting in Janauary 1996. AlphaWorld was the first Internet-based avatar inhabited virtual world allowing users to build in-world. Sherwood was one of the first organized projects in AlphaWorld and won an honorable mention at Ars Electronica in 1997. Sherwood was the...
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, AlphaWorld
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Jan 25, 2017
01/17
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Allan Lundell
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Avatars SIG Panel @ SIGGRAPH 1997 with Bruce Damer, Steve Dipaola and others. A few demos, scenes and people from the SIG at the Omni Hotel in Los Angeles are also included. Recorded by Allan Lundell of Virtual World Studios on August 7, 1997.
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars, SIGGRAPH
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer
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Short movie avatar walking tour of original AlphaWorld "Ground Zero" with Bruce Damer (as Digigardener) and Active Worlds developer Chrispeg. This is the original landing zone for Alphworld as it appeared in the summer of 1995. The oldest object is the street intersection (laid down by Ron Britvich, aka Protagonist, on July 15, 1995). This video was made as a part of a virtual worlds history tour of Sherwood Forest (1996 Contact Consortium and DigitalSpace project).
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, AlphaWorld
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Apr 3, 2010
04/10
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Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer demo of early Avatar/Virtual Worlds & Avatars98, CASCON Toronto, Dec 4, 1998
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars, cyberconference
The focus of this thesis is performing walkthroughs of urban environments in real-time. This encompasses the environment both inside and outside the building, whereby a user can traverse the external virtual world and then enter any building and move throughout the interior. While inside the building, the user can see the exterior world via any windows present. The transition from one environment to the other is transparent to the user. The 2D terrain file used as source data is converted and...
Topics: Virtual worlds, Radiosity, Walkthrough
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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Pop!Tech Conference
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DigitalSpace Founder and CEO Bruce Damer Presenting at Pop!Tech Conference, Camden Maine (Oct 19, 2002). Bruce presents a tour of avatar cyberspace with live demos of in-world inhabitants and the many structures, events and landscapes they build and inhabit.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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DigitalSpace Corporation, Contact Consortium
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DigitalSpace: Avatars2001 Tour of GZ Landing Area, Avatar Cyberconference -2001. Avatars2001 an Avatar Cyberspace Odyssey recreation of Stanley Kubrik's famous 1968 film.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on doodling. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Archiving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. Short clips from this interview can also be found in the collection.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on starting Contact Consortium. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on starting in-world meetings. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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DigitalSpace Corporation, Adobe
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A Walking Tour of Adobe Atmosphere produced for Adobe by DigitalSpace in 2001.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Adobe Atmosphere
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Oct 15, 2010
10/10
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Dorien Zandbergen, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer in conversation with Dorien Zandbergen-2005 on the subjects of virtual worlds, avatars, space, evolution, computer history and more.
Topics: virtual worlds, avatars, space, evolution
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Oct 6, 2010
10/10
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DigitalSpace Corporation, DM3D Studios Pty
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DigitalSpace: 3D Virtual World *The Street* Created In Adobe Atmosphere By DM3D Studios. A dark futuristic city reminiscent of "Blade Runner" created in Adobe's now discontinued Atmosphere 3D web-based virtual world technology. Approx date of project: 2005.
Topics: 3D Virtual Worlds, Adobe Atmosphere
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on the term Avatar. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on organizing the first in-world convention. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on Prague. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Karen Marcelo et al., Biota.org
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images, documents and movies from the biologically inspired Nerve Garden world-1997. SIGGRAPH Electric Garden installation shots are also included in this set (August 1997).
Topics: Virtual Worlds, SIGGRAPH, Artificial Life
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479
Oct 28, 2010
10/10
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Bruce Damer, Karen Marcelo et al., Biota.org
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Virtual Worlds Timeline: Images from the Nerve Garden world-1997. Includes images from the SIGGRAPH 1997 Electric Garden Installation.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, SIGGRAPH, Artificial Life
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Oct 13, 2010
10/10
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DigitalSpace Corporation, Contact Consortium
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Walk Through Sherwood Forest Towne-AlphaWorld-1996 video recorded in 2008 with Active Worlds developer Chris Peg. Historic first project in AlphaWorld, the construction of Sherwood Forest Towne by members of the Contact Consortium starting in Janauary 1996. AlphaWorld was the first Internet-based avatar inhabited virtual world allowing users to build in-world. Sherwood was one of the first organized projects in AlphaWorld and won an honorable mention at Ars Electronica in 1997. Sherwood was the...
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on Bruce Damer's personal background. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can also be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on Bruce Damer's realization that virtual worlds are possible. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
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Bruce Damer interviewed by Henry Lowood on the origins of Virtual Worlds. This clip is on terminology. The interview took place at Stanford University on 8 April, 2009 as part of the Preserving Virtual Worlds project sponsored by the Library of Congress. The full version of this interview can be found in the collection along with other clips from the original.
Topics: Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Bruce Damer
Preserving Virtual Worlds collection focusing on standalone digital games.
Topics: Computer Games, Virtual Worlds, Videogames
The Good Old Days Floppy Collection - Virtual Worlds - see accompanying information file
Topics: IBM PC, Floppy Image, Virtual Worlds
